Frederick Lenz Quotes About Rebirth

• In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moon, Self, Path

• No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Effort, Enlightenment

• Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Buddhism, Light

• Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Suffering

• One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Thinking, Decision

• You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Forever

• The future is certain for those who follow dharma. Those who don't follow dharma are pushed back again and again into the net of rebirth. They are drawn back to the same planes of attention, or lower. It could happen to you!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attention, Rebirth

• So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Dream, Yoga

• Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moments, Rebirth, Reincarnation

• Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mirrors, Personality, Adults

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Understanding, World

• Sometimes in an incarnation you get a feeling of frustration. It is not working out the way you want. If you pull your power together and meditate, no matter what happens to you physically, you will have gained from this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Work Out, Feelings

• All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Desire, Causes, Action

• There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Gone, Next

• When you die in this life, you might be experiencing pain, but the structure of your perceptual field will determine your next lifetime. That structure has been determined by the way you have led this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Might, Way

• If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Moving, Yoga

• The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Goes On, Fields

• The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Levels, Flow, Birth

• If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Wise, Attitude

• Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Life And Death

• At the time of death, whatever you have focused on the most will determine your next life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Next, Rebirth, Determine

• If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life - that type of fear is unnecessary. Life is not that finicky.

  Frederick Lenz

  Next, Pressure, Life Is

• To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Jobs, Done

• Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Ego, Mind

• The essence of your being reincarnates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Rebirth

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